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Egypt stocks fall on bomb blasts, most Mideast markets down

  DUBAI / Reuters Egyptian stocks fell on Sunday, hurt by bomb blasts in the country, while most other Middle East stock markets also ended lower as geopolitical tensions weighed on investor sentiment. Some of the Middle East markets started the day in positive territory as higher oil prices briefly offset concerns about a US missile strike on a Syrian ...

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US stocks resilient in week of surprises as VIX stays quiet

  Bloomberg A week marked by surprises, from a US missile strike in Syria to a jobs report that was the weakest in almost a year, did little to rattle US equities sitting near record levels. Against a backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions and uncertainty over the Donald Trump administration’s approach to financial regulation, volatility remained muted in the stock ...

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On Syria, Trump confronts a moral test

  Even for a president who advertised his coldblooded pragmatism, the moral dimensions of leadership find a way of penetrating the Oval Office. In the case of President Trump, the emotional distance seems to have been shattered by simple, indelible images of suffering children in Idlib, Syria. “When you kill innocent children, innocent babies — babies! — little babies … ...

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